Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine

Dorothea of Denmark
Portrait by Michiel Coxcie, 1545
Electress Palatine
Tenure16 March 1544 – 26 February 1556
Born10 November 1520
Copenhagen
Died31 May 1580(1580-05-31) (aged 59)
Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
Burial
Church of the Holy Ghost, Heidelberg
Spouse
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(m. 1535; died 1556)​
HouseOldenburg
FatherChristian II of Denmark
MotherIsabella of Austria

Dorothea of Denmark and Norway (10 November 1520 – 31 May 1580) was a Danish, Norwegian and Swedish princess and an electress of the Palatinate as the wife of Elector Frederick II of the Palatinate. She was a claimant to the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish thrones and titular monarch in 1559–1561.

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